Reasons and Assertions : Assertion (A) : Stereotypes prevent people from doing…
2024
Reasons and Assertions :
Assertion (A) : Stereotypes prevent people from doing certain things that they are good at.
Reason (R) : Stereotypes stop us from recognizing unique qualities and skills in individuals and fit them into one pattern.
Choose the correct option :
- A.
Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
- B.
Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
- C.
(A) is true but (R) is false
- D.
(A) is false but (R) is true
Attempted by 1 students.
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: A
In Assertion–Reason items, first judge Assertion (A) and Reason (R) independently as true or false; only if both are true do you go on to check whether (R) actually supplies the causal mechanism behind (A).
In educational psychology, a stereotype is a rigid, generalized belief that fits every member of a group into one fixed pattern, overriding attention to each person's actual qualities and skills.
Assertion (A) is true: when learners are boxed into a stereotype (for example about gender, caste, or community), teachers and peers stop expecting or encouraging performance in areas the stereotype excludes, so those learners are held back from tasks they are genuinely good at.
Reason (R) is true: by definition, a stereotype pushes every individual into one generalized pattern, so the specific strengths, interests, and skills that make each learner unique go unnoticed.
(R) explains (A): the one-pattern generalization described in (R) is exactly the mechanism that keeps a learner's individual talent from being recognized and pursued, which produces the outcome stated in (A). So (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
'Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)' would require the task-blocking effect in (A) to come from a cause unrelated to the pattern-fitting in (R) — but the two are directly linked, so this combination does not fit.
'(A) is true but (R) is false' would require stereotypes NOT to generalize individuals into a single pattern — but generalizing people into a fixed pattern is the defining feature of a stereotype, so (R) cannot be false.
'(A) is false but (R) is true' would require stereotypes to fit people into one pattern without ever blocking them from tasks they are good at — but suppressing recognition of a learner's actual skills is precisely what prevents them from pursuing those skills, so (A) cannot be false.
So both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).